Syria condemns the new “Israeli military incursion in the Damascus field | United Nations News


Syrian's Foreign Minister accuses Israel to violate a 1974 agreement to advance his “expansionist and partition plans.”

Syria has condemned a new “military incursion” of Israel in the area of ​​the field of southwest Damascus outside the capital, qualifying it as a “serious threat to regional peace”, following the two parties recently holding conversations in Paris about the decline of conflict in southern Syria.

Syrian Foreign Minister Ashaibani Ashaibani, on Monday, accused Israel of violating the 1974 disconnection agreement by establishing intelligence and military positions in demilitarized areas to advance their “expansionist and partition plans.”

Al-Shaibani made the comments at an emergency meeting of the Organization of Foreign Ministers of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to discuss Israel's genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.

The last Israeli military action in Syria follows mortal clashes in the Syrian province of most of Suwayda drazity, where a week of sectarian violence in July killed 1,400 people before a high fire put an end to blood spill. Israel carried out strikes on the Syrian troops and also bombarded the heart of the capital, Damascus, under the pretext of protecting the druzador.

Al-Sharaa will be the first Syrian leader to go to Unga

Meanwhile, it was announced that the interim president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, will speak in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, the first Syrian leader to do so in decades, while the nation seeks to rebuild and re-go with the international community after 14 years of ruinous civil war and the fall of the leader of a long time Bashar al-Assad.

In the more than 50 years that the Al-Assad dynasty ruled Syria, nor Hafez Al-Assad or his son, Bashar, went to the annual meeting of world leaders in New York.

“He will be the first Syrian president to speak at the United Nations from former President Nuheddin Al-Alssi (in 1967), and the first Syrian president to participate in the high-level week of the General Assembly,” said a Syrian AFP official on Monday.

The interim president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria [Khalil Ashawi /Reuters]

Al-Sharaa, who took power in December after leading the rebels in an advance of Lightning to Damascus that knocked down Al-Assad, remains under sanctions of the UN and a prohibition of traveling due to his past as a fighter, and must request an exemption for all foreign trips.

In April, Al-Shaibani went to the UN for the first time and lifted the new flag of his country at the New York headquarters of the body.

Since he took power, the new authorities of Syria have obtained regional and international support, both diplomatic and financial, ensuring critical economic lines to rebuild the devastated country.

Damascus signed 12 agreements worth $ 14 billion this month, including a $ 4 billion agreement with the Qatar UCC possession to build a new airport and a $ 2 billion agreement to establish one meter in Damascus with the National Investment Corporation of the United Arab Emirates.

Al-Sharaa met with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in May in Saudi Arabia, a week after meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris on his first trip to the West.

Both the United States and the European Union have raised long -standing sanctions against Syria.

Syria will hold parliamentary elections in September, a week before the Unga meeting.

They will be the first to take place under the new authorities of the country after the fall of the former al-Assad. A third of the 210 seats will be designated by the interim Al-Sharaa, with the rest to be chosen.

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